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- Mind games

. SENTINEL sécondary school’s Odyssey of the Mind
.: team, above, will be going to Kamloops tomorrow for
the provincial version of the problem-solving compe-

tition.

Classroom spac

needed in N Van |

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The additional money
means that cight new class-
roams can now be built for
the school instead of the
original plan to use two
portables.

“We're very pleased to
get that news from Victoria.
That will preclude the need
for portables,” Bird said.

Education Minister Paul
Ramsey’s recent announce-
ment calls for a 50% reduc-
tion in the use of portable
classrooms around — the
province over the next five
years.

Meanwhile, local school
board representatives said
they were pleased to be
receiving a portion of the
recently announced $17.7
million’ in provincial capital
funding. °

North Vancouver District
44 will receive approximately
$5 million and West
Vancouver District 45 will
reccive approximately
$950,000 (in addition to the
above noted $2 million) of
the $17.7 million.

The monies will go pri-
marily into improving access
to schools for the physically
disabled.

But North Vancouver's
Handsworth secondary

school will also get an addi-
tion designed to accomnio-
date 500 students.

“T guess it’s great news,
but we already knew it,” said
North Vancouver School
District 44 chairman. Pat
Heal. “Ir was approved last
year so it’s sore of smoke and
nivrars.”

Heal said Handsworth
was a priority bur also
emphasized the need to look
at other Nerth Vancouver-
area schools critically.

“I would have liked to
have seen them (the govern-
ment) expand Seycove (sec-
ondary),” she said. “And
we've (also) got Capilano
elementary (which) could
really use an addition.”

When asked what she
thinks about the recent S2
million allocated to West
Vancouver’s school district,
Heal said she is hoping for
the same kind of support for
North Vancouver.

“In some of the schools
there are quite a few porta-
bles,” she said. “We're cer-
tainly not as bad off as some
other districts.”

Both Heal and Bird agree
thac the portable classroom

problem is not a big issue for |

North Shore schools. Still,
they acknowledge the need
for the careful planning and

22 "athena in need of local plans

: From page 3

allocate $50,000 from its
‘1997 operating surplus to

‘rerain one consultant. for a.

one-year trial ‘period.
The district is committed
to'a_neighborhood participa-

"tion process .that determines

publically acceptable zoning
restrictions.

The move, a first.in the
Lower: Mainland in terms of
the small-scale scope. of .the
zoning, came in response to
an early 1990s public backlash
against. the height and mass of
so-called “monster homes.”

The; bigger-is- better
approach, ir was charged, was
changing neighborhoods for-
ever.

’-A.bylaw was adopted’ by

“the district’ in, 1994 to. limit =

the height. of new single- -fam-
‘ily house construction wesc of

Lynn Creek to the height of
the home it replaced,
The bylaw also applied to

-height additions dunng reno-

sation.
The bylaw was intended as

‘an interim masure to allow

neighborhood input on cach
new ‘house constructed until '
local neighborhood zoning is
agreed upon.

Home owners wanting to

build higher than an existing
_ house can seek a variance per-

mit that is voted on by coun-
cil after neighborhood input.
The permit process was
extended to the Seymour area
in 1997,
There are approximately

22 neighborhoods still requir-
- ing a local plan west of Lynn

Creek. !
“ Six areas have completed §
their own zoning process: |

Marlborough Heights; 3

Delbrook; Keith

Norgats;
and

Lynn; Murda Frazer
Norwood/Queens.
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for Pemberton Heights, with
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efficient use of allocated
funds. Both are striving to

alleviate the pressures of

overcrowding.

“Our projections over the
next five to 10 years is for
huge increases and how we
are going to deal with those
J don’t know yet,” says Heal.

Meanwhile, Bird con-
firmed that, with the excep-
tion of West Van secondary
school, there will only be one
or two portables added to
district schools next ycar.

“First of all, portables are
not really an issue in West
Vancouver,” he says. “We're
not a school district that is

lagued with many perta-

les. There’s a few here and
there but it’s nor really a
major issue for us.”

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